About this stotram
This verse honours the teaching principle rather than any single person. Many practitioners chant it before study, and many read it simply as gratitude to the people who taught them something they now live by.
How to recite
- Sit quietly and bring one real teacher to mind.
- Chant the verse once, unhurried.
- Stay with the feeling of gratitude for a few breaths without adding words.
- Open the eyes gently.
Notes
- A teacher here can be a person, a book, an illness or an ordinary day that taught you something.
- Shoonyaka is not a lineage and does not claim to transmit one.
Practise gently
Shoonyaka offers educational and devotional material, not medical, psychological or religious authority. Recite at a volume and pace that stays comfortable, and stop if the breath shortens or the throat hurts.